Norman Lowell Interregnum Interview
Interesting.
I agree with Lowell in about 95% of what he says, and the other 5% are minor things that are not relevant to the main points, the main objectives. Of that 5%, I have to disagree with Lowell’s opinion of certain books and racialist leaders, and I have always stressed science and dismissed theosophy. But those are details. I have always supported and endorsed the main tenets of Lowell’s Imperium Europa idea, and I do so once again. He is always an effective voice of reason against the petty nationalism that infests much of “far right nationalism” in the West today. Unfortunately, it seems like all of the websites associated with him are either no longer functioning or the domain registrations have expired. I would advise getting those back up and running.
One more point about this podcast.
When people like Leonard talk about the “Italian” language, they seem to imply that there is some long-standing and coherent Italian language that is naturally and historically spoken by all (real) Italians, but those bizarre southerners (alone) speak their own isolated dialects. The reality of course is that there have historically been different dialects throughout the Italian peninsula and islands, and one of those, Tuscan/Florentine, was used to develop a language to tie together the peoples of the nation.
Read this, emphasis added:
The standard Italian language has a poetic and literary origin in the writings of Tuscan writers of the 12th century, and, even though the grammar and core lexicon are basically unchanged from those used in Florence in the 13th century,[18] the modern standard of the language was largely shaped by relatively recent events…The language that came to be thought of as Italian developed in central Tuscany and was first formalized in the early 14th century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine…In addition to the widespread exposure gained through literature, the Florentine dialect also gained prestige due to the political and cultural significance of Florence at the time and the fact that it was linguistically an intermediate between the northern and the southern Italian dialects.[16]:22 Thus the dialect of Florence became the basis for what would become the official language of Italy. Italian was progressively made an official language of most of the Italian states predating unification, slowly replacing Latin…
Milanese dialect is just as "not Italian" as is Neapolitan dialect. There are, and historically have been, many dialects in Italy; the Florentine dialect was that which became the basis for a national language. So, this is another issue for which the fetishists can calm down about and wipe the sweat off their foreheads.
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